Lesson 026: Adapter calculus vs prompting
Focus
Document interfaces between humans, retrieval, and policy engines. Token Adapter calculus vs prompting:26 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Adapter calculus vs prompting · drill v6 · spin
760241. - Habit: pair every model utterance with a trace_id you could paste into Grafana.
- Guardrail: write one RACI bullet referencing this lesson tomorrow.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Agent choreography card
1. Observe transcripts bucket `BUCKET-2`
2. Budget steps `5`
3. Tool whitelist: `retrieve_docs, escalate_human, log_decision`
4. Hard stop triggers: hallucination_budget | escalation keyword `URGENT-2`
Practice
Practice List five adversarial prompts unique to your org’s nouns. — 26 Bump literals mindset by 28.